# 厚生年金保険法 / Employees' Pension Insurance Act — 第八十二条 (Article 82) - Law: 厚生年金保険法 (Employees' Pension Insurance Act), 昭和二十九年法律第百十五号 - English title "Employees' Pension Insurance Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第八十二条 (Article 82)（保険料の負担及び納付義務） — address `art-82` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八十二条（保険料の負担及び納付義務） — (Burden of Insurance Premiums and Obligation to Pay) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82 **第一項** 被保険者及び被保険者を使用する事業主は、それぞれ保険料の半額を負担する。 art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82/par-1 The insured and the employer employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 事業主は、その使用する被保険者及び自己の負担する保険料を納付する義務を負う。 art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82/par-2 An employer has the obligation to pay the insurance premiums borne by the insureds it employs and those that it bears itself. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 被保険者が同時に二以上の事業所又は船舶に使用される場合における各事業主の負担すべき保険料の額及び保険料の納付義務については、政令の定めるところによる。 art-82/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82/par-3 If an insured is employed by two or more places of business or ships at the same time, the amount of insurance premiums that is to be borne by each employer and the obligation to pay insurance premiums is as prescribed by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第二号厚生年金被保険者についての第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「事業主は」とあるのは、「事業主（国家公務員共済組合法第九十九条第六項に規定する職員団体その他政令で定める者を含む。）は、政令で定めるところにより」とする。 art-82/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82/par-4 When the provisions of paragraph (1) are applied to a category II EPI insured, the phrase "the employer employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "the employer (including an employee organization as provided for in Article 99 paragraph (6) of the National Public Officers Mutual Aid Association Act and other persons specified by Cabinet Order) employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums, as specified by Cabinet Order". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 第三号厚生年金被保険者についての第一項の規定の適用については、同項中「事業主は」とあるのは、「事業主（市町村立学校職員給与負担法（昭和二十三年法律第百三十五号）第一条又は第二条の規定により給与を負担する都道府県その他政令で定める者を含む。）は、政令で定めるところにより」とする。 art-82/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82/par-5 When the provisions of paragraph (1) are applied to a category III EPI insured, the phrase "the employer employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums" in that paragraph is deemed to be the phrase "the employer (including a prefecture who bears the salary pursuant to the provisions of Article 1 or Article 2 of the Act on Sharing of Salaries for Personnel of Municipal Schools (Act No. 135 of 1948)) employing the insured each bear half the cost of the insurance premiums, as specified by Cabinet Order". Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-82/par-4: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82/par-1 - art-82/par-4: 国家公務員共済組合法第九十九条第六項 → e-Gov law 333AC0000000128, 第九十九条第六項 (Article 99, paragraph (6)), art-99/par-6 — not held in this collection - art-82/par-5: 第一項 → 厚生年金保険法 第八十二条第一項 (Article 82, paragraph (1)), art-82/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82/par-1 - art-82/par-5: 市町村立学校職員給与負担法（昭和二十三年法律第百三十五号）第一条 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000135, 第一条 (Article 1), art-1 — not held in this collection - art-82/par-5: 第二条 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000135, 第二条 (Article 2), art-2 — not held in this collection ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 厚生年金保険法 第八十二条第四項（保険料の負担及び納付義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82/par-4 - 厚生年金保険法 第八十二条第五項（保険料の負担及び納付義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-82/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-82/par-5 - 厚生年金保険法 第八十四条の二第一項（保険料の徴収等の特例） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-84-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-84-2/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 第百二条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/art-102/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/art-102/par-1/item-3 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第四条の三第七項（高齢任意加入被保険者） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-3291-115/art-4-3/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-3291-115/art-4-3/par-7 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十二条第一項（短時間被保険者に係る厚生年金保険料に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-22/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-22/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第二十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-5071-74/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-5071-74/art-23/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 厚生年金保険法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000115/20261001_507AC0000000074), retrieved 2026-10-13 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Employees' Pension Insurance Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3554/tb), retrieved 2026-10-13 - This site's parser, version 190 — 厚生年金保険法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-13